Slapdash International Improv Festival: Night Two

Slapdash International Improv Festival brings some of the finest improvisers from all over the world to perform improvised comedy and theatre in central London! Organised by The Nursery, the annual event is a week-long celebration of international improv, and offers an exciting opportunity to see some of the most talked-about acts from around the world!

Slapdash International Ensemble - For the first time ever, we present the Slapdash International Cast. These performers auditioned and were selected to train for the first time together the week of the festival and headline Friday night. These performers are experience improvisers, actors and musicians from six countries (UK, US, Canada, Italy, Germany and Peru) will be presenting an improvised one acted played director by Austin based director, Jon Bolden of The Hideout Theatre. Jon is an award winning director, actor and improviser specialising in ensemble narrative storytelling and is known for his award-winning Nothing & Everything: Improvised Anton Chekhov Plays and the Manhattan Stories: Improvised “Woody Allen Films.” He has also been the producer of the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin. We are excited to see what this team presents for the first and last time.

Theatre de l’mignon – Random is an improv show in its purest form. Random is a messy playground for grown-up children and an open window on their imaginative power. From no suggestion, actors and musicians take you to different universes, discovered in front of you, from spontaneously created sets. Headliner at the Big If, Random has toured to Brussels, Leuven, Barcelona, Tampere, Dublin and Amsterdam and is taught and performed by other troupes around the world.

B&B - Betse Green and Bill Cernansky have been married since 1989. They’ll take a break from exploring their own relationship to explore some made-up relationships for you, probably stealing each other’s characters, too, because it’s much easier to do on stage than in real life. Playing as a duo, B&B focus on what they know best: relationships. Their signature format is the Revolver, in which the players are free to steal each other’s characters after they have been established. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye*. It’s still all fun and games after that.